Giraldiella montana Dammer; Lloydia montana (Dammer) P. C. Kuo; L. tibetica var. lutescens Franchet.

Plants 10--30 cm tall. Bulb 2.5--3.5 cm × 6--9 mm. Basal leaves 3--10, narrowly strap-shaped, usually shorter than stem, 1.5--3 mm wide; cauline leaves 2 or 3, narrowly linear, 1.5--2.5 cm × 1--2 mm, margin occasionally minutely ciliate. Inflorescence 1--5-flowered; bracts narrowly linear, 6--10 mm. Tepals yellow, purplish green veined, usually villous at base adaxially; outer tepals suboblong, 1.3--2 cm × 4--6 mm; inner ones obovate-elliptic, 1.3--2 cm × 6--8 mm, with 1--4 crested lamellae near base adaxially. Stamens 7--10 mm; filaments densely villous except apically. Ovary ovoid, 3--4(--5) mm. Style 4--6(--8) mm; stigma slightly 3-lobed. Fl. May--Jul.

Shady slopes, grasslands; 2300--4100 m. Gansu, Hebei, Hubei, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Xizang [Nepal].